Activities for Guilds through Zoom offered by Marie-Claire Charette a.k.a. La Quilting Coach
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Presentation
Title: Picking up the Thread between Quilting and Coaching
Description of the presentation
Marie-Claire Charette a.k.a. La Quilting Coach, has spent most of her professional career to assist managers and executives develop their leadership skills. Now semi-retired, Marie-Claire invests more time in her other passion which is sharing her love of quilting. What she has discovered is that her two passions complement each other. In her opinion, quilting can be more than a quilt on a bed but a path to self-discovery, building strong relationships and even healing.
This presentation is offered via Zoom.
Workshops (currently offered via Zoom)
- 1.Walking Foot Quilting
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Not a fan of free motion quilting? This one day workshop will show you how to quilt with your walking foot with stunning results. This technique is the new rage in quilting. We will get our inspiration from a book written by Canadian designer Melissa Marginet. Get ready to bring your quilts to the next level!!
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- 2. Quilt-as-you go – 7 techniques to assemble your quilt section by section ( 2 half days)
It is hard to squeeze in a big quilt through the opening of a sewing machine but you don’t want to pay a huge amount of money to have your quilt professionally done. The solution is to quilt section by section and then assembling your quilt. Have no fear! These techniques will make it possible to quilt your own quilt! Bonus: you will have the satisfaction of completing your own quilt from beginning to end.
In this workshop, you will learn the advantages of each of 7 QAYG techniques, how to choose the best technique to achieve the results you want, how to adapt a regular pattern into a QAYG and get stunning results.
At the end of the workshop, you will have made a sample of each of the techniques so that you can make a binder for future reference.
(This reversible quilt was assembled using one of the techniques covered in the workshop.)
- 3. Quilt-as-you go: Pauline Rogers Techniques (1/2 day)
You want to widen your possibilities of QAYG ? You will learn two unique techniques developed by Australian designer Pauline Rogers. These techniques, with numerous variations, make quilting our quilts so much fun and accessible to all! With all these techniques, the seams will be on top of your quilt and covered with a sashing.
(Reversible quilt assembled with one of Pauline Rogers technique)
- 4. Collage (2 half-days)
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The possibilities are endless with Laura Heine’s novel patterns of collage. This is an easy technique to learn that give stunning results and it is a fun way to use your stash. Get ready with a pair of scissors to do decoupage and let the fun begin!!
